Asian women annually spend seven times the amount of money as Asian men.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

- Confucius

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Helen Keller

Google Chrome is FAST! Goodbye Internet Explorer.

Every time you spend money you cast a vote for the kind of world you want.

- Anna Lappe

Businessmen with Backpacks

From time to time in New York I’ve seen businessmen in suits wearing backpacks while commuting. Backpacks are for schoolchildren and campers. People in backpacks don’t seem like credible business people to me. The irony is enhanced when seeing a backpack made of leather – it’s still a backpack and now you look like a student in Japan. Can’t those people fit their documents and their lunch in a different bag? If they really need to lug many books and papers back and forth they should take a small suitcase that can be rolled or held in one hand. At least then they’ll look like a consultant, not like they’re going camping or to school. At the very least they’ll save their clothing from tell-tale creases.

Manure from chicken factory farms is choking the life out of the oceans. Management programs for waste have not kept pace with output. Nearly 9 billion chickens are raised for meat in the US each year.

Life is too short to do things that constrain or bore you. Make it amazing.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that’s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

- John C. Maxwell

I receive an e-newsletter from Diversity Executive magazine. I think it's ironic that there are links to download "white" papers.

'Vengeance is a water vessel with a hole. It carries nothing but the promise of emptiness.' - Master Po

'Shall I then repay injury always with kindness?' - Young Caine

'Repay injury with justice and forgiveness, but kindness always with kindness.' - Master Po

Eating vegan one day a week lowers your carbon footprint more than eating local every
day of the week.

- Washington Post

If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.

– Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Master (1904-1971)

Why do some companies choose to have chairs in their meeting rooms that make fart sounds when you shift your position? If I'm in a meeting and the chair I'm sitting on makes that noice, the way I deal with it is to keep moving so that people realize the sound can't be a fart.

We have successfully raised an entire generation of kids who think fruit is a flavor, not a food.

- Tony Geraci, food and nutrition director for Baltimore City Public Schools

Wireless charging – the technology for wireless power transmission already exists. Imagine not ever needing to plug your phone, laptop, game controller, golf cart, etc. When people figure out how to make it commercially practical we'll have it.

The most typical family featured in advertising, "married with children," is actually the third-most-common household, at only 22% of households [in the US]. The largest household group, 28%, is actually the "married with no children" home. In fact, the "one-person household," only 17% of the population in 1970, became 27% of the population by 2007 and is still growing.

- AdAge

Your motivation and ambition are more important to your success than where you went to college.

I changed my gender on my Pandora account. After 4 years of being male they now think I'm female. There were too many match.com ads with many smiling faces of single white females. It grew distracting and annoying. The annoyance was because in the US, white people are the equivalent of Type O blood: everyone can accept Type O. The dozens of white faces don't represent the actual demographics of this country, nor, I assume, the membership of match.com. I understand match.com wants to drive traffic to their site, but the way they're doing it ticks me off. It's encouraging a pigmentocracy, which more responsible companies should try not to support.

I should probably point out that despite these views of what should and shouldn't be publicly promoted, I am in a LTR with a white female (who happens to have Type O blood).

When you know better, you do better.